..The review also provided some positive models and some recommendations for assessing, reporting and exploring heterogeneity are made considering these models and the published recommendations of experts...

Randomized trial of fructosamine home monitoring in patients with diabetes

..All data collection for these two studies occurred after approval of Norplant implants for marketing in the US in December 1990. The methods of the individual studies are detailed in prior publications...

..95, 1.89) in estrogen/progestin users and 1.23 (95% confidence interval: 0.94, 1.59) in estrogen users. These findings do not provide support for an effect of estrogen or estrogen/progestin use in preventing dementia...

Cognitive domains associated with performance on the telephone interview for cognitive status-modified

..Women with newly diagnosed breast cancer seek answers to many questions about their disease, treatment options, and prognosis. Failure to meet these needs may cause dissatisfaction with the care process...

Do racial and ethnic differences in serum folate values exist after food fortification with folic acid?

..Information about folate levels early in pregnancy before the fortification is limited. This study examined the associations between serum folate at first prenatal visit and maternal race/ethnicity, age, vitamin use, and body mass index...

Breast cancer risk in a large cohort of female antidepressant medication users

..We describe quality measurement sets and systems, criteria for the choice of measures, data sources, and how quality measurements are used to improve health care and outcomes from a population health care perspective...

Social network, cognitive function, and dementia incidence among elderly women

..Periconceptional folic acid use reduces the risk of neural tube defects and possibly other birth defects. The effectiveness of two interventions to increase the use of multivitamins among women of childbearing ages was evaluated...

..To explore the association between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and cognitive performance in a group of elderly women (>/=75) using a battery of well-standardized neuropsychological instruments...

..None of the rehospitalised infants died, were diagnosed with kernicterus or required resuscitation. Attention to risks associated with jaundice rehospitalisation might reduce this undesirable, but not commonly severe, outcome...

Mortality following development of breast cancer while using oestrogen or oestrogen plus progestin: a computer record-linkage study

..004), whereas the continuation rate was lower for all other drug classes. We provide data to suggest that evidence from randomized trials is one factor influencing the continued use of antihypertensive medication...

..The aim of this study was to determine whether intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis changed the constellation and timing of onset of clinical signs of group B streptococcal (GBS) infection in term infants...

Mortality, dementia, and apolipoprotein E genotype in elderly white women in the United States

..The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and determinants of elevated apolipoprotein B (apoB) and dense low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in United States youth with type 1 or type 2 diabetes...

Infant sleeping position and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in California, 1997-2000

..0) and AOR = 6.9 (95% CI: 2.3, 20.6) for the prone and side positions, respectively). Infants placed in an unaccustomed prone or side sleeping position had a higher risk of SIDS than infants who were always placed prone or on the side...

Some surprises, some answers, and more questions about hormone therapy: further findings from the Women's Health Initiative